Saturday, 31 December 2016

Another quick card for CHNC challenge 314 that I made before Christmas using a pre-coloured topper from Elisabeth Bell, mounted on some mirror card and a piece of Kaisercraft background paper, with some washi tape, star, gem and sentiment.

This is my second card for my CHNC challenge 314 - another quick card that I made before Christmas using a pre-coloured topper from Elisabeth Bell, mounted on some mirror card and a piece of Kaisercraft background paper, with a few little embellishments from The Works.

This is my first card for my CHNC challenge 314, the last challenge of 2016 that, of course, runs into the beginning of 2017 ... and the theme is 'anything goes as long as it's Christmas'.

I hope lots of crafters will join me in making a resolution to get some Christmas creations made throughout the year, which is the reason why I started my weekly challenge blog six years ago. There will be some changes in the new year, but with the main emphasis still on getting Christmas designs done throughout the year - more about that next week.

This is another quick card that I made before Christmas using a pre-coloured topper from Elisabeth Bell, mounted on some mirror card and a piece of Kaisercraft background paper, with a few little embellishments from The Works.

Saturday, 24 December 2016

This is my third card for my CHNC challenge 313: use a sentiment. The image is another lovely pre-coloured Elisabeth Bell topper. Because I wanted to make quick cards I cut quite a few circles etc on my Scan n cut and used them for matting. The background paper is Basic Grey, with the simple addition of the poinsettia from Hobbycraft and the sentiment.

This is my second card for my CHNC challenge 313: use a sentiment. The image is another lovely pre-coloured Elisabeth Bell topper. Because I wanted to make quick cards I cut quite a few circles etc on my Scan n cut and used them for matting. The background paper is Basic Grey, the little sparkly presents and festive bowwere from The Works.

It seems impossible that it's now Christmas Eve! I expect there are others, like me, who had to make some simple, quick Christmas cards recently because time was running out ... I make Christmas cards throughout the year, but the problem for me is that I sell to raise money for charity and then I need to quickly make more for us to send. Perhaps you've made cards recently and not had a chance to blog them yet - I'd love to see them entered into my challenges.

So this is one of the cards that I'm showing for my CHNC challenge 313: use a sentiment. The image is a lovely pre-coloured Elisabeth Bell topper. Because I wanted to make quick cards I cut quite a few circles etc on my Scan n cut and used them for matting. The background paper is Basic Grey, the lovely 3D felt bell was from The Works and washi tape from Christmas stash.

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

This is my design card for Penny's challenge 309: anything goes - please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and we hope you will join in the challenge. Please note that there will be no challenge next week, but we'll be back on 3 January 2017.

For my card I used the lovely Bugaboo Stamps Raggedy angel - lay on star (Bugaboo are sponsoring the challenge). The image was mounted on to an offcut square of mirror card. The background paper is from Kaisercraft twig & berry paper pad - the paper is lovely and touch and feely with flocking. Sentiment tag from The Works and glittered gold poinsettias from Hobbycraft.

Saturday, 17 December 2016

This is my design card for my CHNC challenge 312 - it seems unreal that the next challenge will start on Christmas Eve! This year has flown by - it doesn't seem long ago that I was saying the same kind of thing a year ago. And I find it quite incredible that at the end of this year I will have been running my weekly CHNC challenges for six years!

I coloured the image digitally and then printed and cut out. The backing paper is from The colours of Christmas vintage pad from The Works, which was mounted on to a piece of red sparly card and then on to a glossy red card blank. I added washi tape across the bottom, black and white sentiment strips from an old Making Cards freebie and little penguins from Paperchase.

Thursday, 15 December 2016

This is my design card for Christmas cards all year round December challenge, from the Christmas Belles group - please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the Belles team and also click here to see the designs by the Gingerbread Gals and enter the challenge.

The background paper of my card is from an Elegant Christmas pad from Poundland. The image is Bugaboo Stamps penguin joy (Bugaboo are sponsoring the CCAYR December challenge). The felt and glittered penguins are from stash (think they came from The Works, but not sure).

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

This is my design card for Penny's challenge 308: Christmas. Please click on the link to see the lovely festive designs by the rest of the team and we hope you will find time to join in our challenge.

The background of my card is a Hunkydory offcut and the image is Lacy Sunshine Reggie - Christmas Bells, kindly supplied by them as sponsor of the challenge. I coloured the image with spectrum noir pens and added some snowflakes, the sentiment circle and the lovely felt dog - and a sprinkle of Art Institute glitter.

In the last couple of weeks I've had to make lots of Christmas cards. This isn't because I don't make them early enough because I make Christmas cards throughout the year, which is why I started my CHNC weekly challenges six years ago - to encourage me to make cards throughout the year and, hopefully, to encourage others too.

The problem is that, although I make lots and lots of Christmas cards, I end up selling most of them to raise money for charities and then have the job of making quick cards in December for us to send.

So, for my CHNC challenge 311, I'm showing three quick cards that I made that all feature some silver.

This is the first one, using Hunkydory supplies with a silver strip between the two offcuts, with the addition of a chipboard greeting.